Eating during first trimester

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Hi everyone,

I’m currently 10+3 with my first pregnancy.

I’ve been going through stages of nausea from approx week 5, one week I’m extremely nauseas and the next I will be fine. I’ve also totally gone off food as a result, all my body wanted in the early days was fresh or tinned fruit, recently all I want is sugary/sour sweets and I’m trying to eat as much fruit/healthily as possible. I am hungry most of the time but I can’t bear to eat in the evenings, it’s making me gag when I try.

I find I can eat up until a certain time of the day and evenings I don’t want anything. I also have IBS so evenings I’ve found the bloat worse, to a point that it’s painful. I don’t know if I’m psychologically linking this to eating?

Has anyone felt like this or have any tips to combat this?

I'm in my third trimester now..can only eat in morning, any other time it makes me nauseous for hours after..i still try to eat tho....listen to your body..eat whatever u can .. its pregnancy doing this all.... i couldnt eat in first trimester then ate day and night second and now not again... I'm so fed up lol u have my sympathies...

Eat what you can, when you can. During my first pregnancy I had awful nausea up to 14 weeks, then again at weeks 16-18, but was never sick - GP put me on the sick for a month at one point. All I wanted was bland food (when I felt I could eat) like plain chips, crisps etc, spoke to my midwife cause I said I thought I'd get railroaded for not being healthy - she told me it was nonsense and to eat whatever I could stomach, whether that be pizzas or fruit! I found eating little and often helped - I would have a bite of a cereal bar when I felt at my worst because I found it easier than eating the full thing, and the sickness went when there was something on my stomach.

Have you tried those sea bands? You can get them from boots or on amazon - I used them during both pregnancies. Don't know if it was just a placebo effect but I felt like they helped in a small way

I had to completely change my habits int he first trimester. I've always been a three meals per day and no snacks in between kind of person, but in first tri I couldn't eat normal portions as it made me queasy and I couldn't have too long between food as that also made me queasy, so I had to learn to graze throughout the day, little snacks every couple hours until about 6pm after which I struggled to eat at all so I basically stopped having any dinner.

And the foods I could eat had to be fresh, bright and tangy - fruit, salad, lemony pasta, feta cheese, olives. I couldn't deal with anything umami, I almost had to leave the house once when husband was cooking a roast and the smell of gravy almost made me heave.

Eat what you can, it's only temporary (usually)!

Just eat whatever you feel like, whenever you feel like it

It's a short period of time in the scheme if things, I lived off wotsits for a few days at one point in the first few months 😂

I'm 20 weeks now and my appetite is slowly returning, I still miss out meals sometimes and just snack instead though